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Committee on Gender Equity

Established: 1969 (as the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women); reconstituted in 1971 as the Committee on Women Historians; renamed the Committee on Gender Equity in 2017

Purpose: To advocate for and monitor women's and gender equity in the discipline, including recommending policies and best practices in that regard; to promote women's and gender history and the history of sexuality; and to foster an inclusive scholarship that challenges and transforms the practice of history, both substantively and methodologically.

Membership: 5 members, including one graduate student or early career professional. Members serve for three-year terms, with new members added on a staggered yearly basis. The committee meets twice a year by teleconference.